Knitted fabric.



Patented Jul 13, 1909;

D QQ/Q Q UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT W. SCOTT, OF LEEDS POINT, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO GENERAL KNIT FABRIC COMPANY, OF UTIOA, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

KNITTED FABRIC.

ll'o. 928,221.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 13, 1909.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known thatI, ROBERT W. SCOTT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Leeds Point, Atlantic county, New Jersey, have invented certain Improvements in Knitted Fabrics, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of a knitted web possessing certain characteristics which distinguish it from an ordinary knitted web of its class, one of such characteristics being that although the web may be light in weight and present the appearance of being knitted very slack, it possesses features of stability and resiliency not possessed by an ordinary slack-knitted web, another characteristic being a mesh construction which imparts an attractive appearance to the weband improves the sanitary qualities of a garment made therefrom.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 illustrates, on a much exaggerated scale, a piece of knitted web made in accordance with my invention, and Fi 2 is a view on a somewhat smaller scale 0 another formof the improved web.

The distinguishing characteristic of the improved web shown in Fig. 1 is that it presents, both in the needle wales and courses, alternations of long stitches x and short stitches y, the disposition of the long and.

short stitches bein reversed in successive courses. This resu t is attained by using in the knitting machine two sets of needles and employing, at each yarn feed, a longdraft cam and a short-draft cam, each acting upon its respective set of needles, the disposition of these cams being reversed at successive feeds, whereby the needles which draw long "stitches at onefeed will draw short stitches at the next feed, and vice' and, as the larger stitches are the dominat-' ing ones, the ventilating and sanitary properties of a arment made from the improved web are e anced.

While the improved web presents the appearance of being knitted slack the alternation of the long slack stitches with the smallerand closer stitches imparts to the web characteristics of stability and resiliency not ossessed by an ordinary web having slack or oosel knitted stitches throughout, and I am there ore enabled to use fine yarn and to draw the slack stitches so long that the fabric may be of light weight without loss of stability, the lesser weig economical production. Although I have shown my invention as embodied in a web in which the long and short stitches alternate in successive single wales and courses, the same len th of stitch may, if desired, prevail throug out two or more success1ve Wales or courses, or wales t of yarn tending to v and courses, if desired, within the broader embodiment of my invention, and in Fig. 2, I

have shown a web in which the lar e and tivel large size alternating with stitches of sma er size in single courses, and, in single courses alternating therewith, a reverse disposition of the 10 and short stitches.

4. A knitted we having stitches of relativel large size alternating with stitches of sma er size in single courses and single wales, and, in single alternating courses and s le alternatinglwales, a reverse disposition of t e long and s ort stitches.

Intestimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ROBERT w. soor'r.

Witnesses:

.HAMETON D. Tonnes,

KATE A. BEADLE.

3. A knitted web having stitches of rela- 

